We built a Home Assistant integration for our cats' litter box
The MOVA MeowgicPod only talks to its own cloud app, with no documented API. Here's how we reverse-engineered the protocol, guessed our way to the action IDs, and shipped four releases in two days — plus what's still on the roadmap.
Read post → 💧Smart garden irrigation with a Sonoff 4CH Pro and Rain Bird valves
How we built a four-zone smart irrigation controller from a Sonoff 4CH Pro R3, a 24 VAC transformer and Rain Bird electrovalves — full wiring guide included, so you can replicate it.
Read post → 🍪Hello, world — the oven is officially open
Why a small software studio decided to start writing things down — what we're building, what we've learned, and why the blog is named after a cookie jar.
Read post → 🏠Five Home Assistant automations we install in every smart home
After dozens of installs, these are the automations that clients actually keep using six months later — plus the ones we quietly stopped recommending.
Read post → 🐱What Rocky taught us about chaos engineering
Our Head of Chaos Engineering has deleted two Figma files and one production config. Here's how a cat made our deployment pipeline genuinely more resilient.
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